Improvement in skates



EDWARDS.

Skates.

Patented Aug.18,1874.

THE GRAPHIC CD. PHAOTOLITHJSS 4I PARK PLACE, Nfl.

PAEET @Enea OLVER EDWARDS, OF FLORENCE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SKATES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 154,176, dated August18, 1874; application filed July 22,1874.

CASE B.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, OLIVER EDWARDS, ofFlorence, in the county of Hampshire, in the State of Massachusetts,have made certain Improvements in Skates, of Which the following is thespecification:

The object of this invention is to produce a cheap, durable, and simpleskate; and it consists in the construction of the same, as will risersAA far enough to go through theV foot rests or plates, and be rivetedfast thereto, and then smoothed ofi' on the top even With the plates. aa are enlargements of the bases of the rivets, which give an additionalamount of bearing 'surface or support laterally to the foot rests orplates without increasing to any considerable extent the Weight of therunner. a is the button or stud, that rises above the heel-plate bypassing through it, with a neck, a3, while the button on the top is of agreater diameter transversely with the runner than longitudinallytherewith, the neck a3 being round. This runner is made by casting inmolds from any suitable metal of which the runners of skates are cast,or they may be out or stamped from plates and formed in suitable dies,the leading object being to form the rivets a and the bases a to therivets, and the stud or button with its base, in the same metal that therunner and risers are, so that there will be no chance of separation orbreakage in use; in other Words, the runner, risers, rivets, and buttonor stud are all one piece of metal. B is the toe or ball of thefoot-rest, is riveted fast to the runner A by the rivets a w on therisers A of the runner. b b are projections on either side of the plateB, and have loop-holes b therein to secure proper straps therein, tofasten the fore part of the skate to the foot. B is the heel rest orplate, made fast to the runner A by the rivets a a on the riser underthe heel, and allowing the button or stud a to pass through it, as seenin Figs.

l and 3.

By this construction, a skate is formed from and has but three pieces init, and by having less pieces, and consequently fewer parts and joints,the strength and durability of the skate are increased, is less liableto break or get out of order, and decreases the price.

What I claim as new is- 1. The skate-runner A, with its risers A A,rivets a, button or stud a, and their enlarged bases a', in one piece ofmetal, in the manner and for the purposes described.

2. The skate-runner A, having the rivets a, stud a, with their enlargedbases a', in combination with the plates B and B', substantially as andfor the purposes described.

OLIVER EDWARDS.

Witnesses:

CALVIN PORTER, E. V. TANNER.

